As high winds becomes to pick up Friday afternoon, Cass Township is the first of what will probably many power outages across Schuylkill County.
As of 2:40pm, Friday, 555 of the 560 homes that are PPL customers in Cass Township were without power after a tree fell on wires from the winds.
According to PPL, power is expected to be restored by 7:30pm, Friday.
Schuylkill County remains in a High Wind Warning until 2:00am Saturday morning with winds expected between 25 to 35 mph and gusts up to 60 mph.
As of 2:40pmm, smaller outages were reported in North Manheim Township, North Union Township, Port Carbon, and West Brunswick Township.